Michael Gurstein wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 17:41:00 -0500 (EST)
> From: Gail Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Musings about the MAI
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> Some Musings about the MAI ... and a Proposal
[snip]
> e) a concern for elements (e.g. environment, sustainability,
> cultural protection, labour standards) beyond the MAI and
> having no possibility of ever being adequately addressed
> within it?
>
> A thought: The economy exists within the environment. The
> interests of the environment cannot be adequately addressed
> within the economy. The economy exists within the society.
> The interests of society cannot be adequately addressed
> within the economy. It stands to reason?
[snip]
An annotation: Hermann Broch, whom I believe invested
significant energy in the early development of the United Nations
(does anyone have any details about this involvement?),
in his philosophical novel _The Sleepwalkers_,
characterized the 20th century as [my words, not his:],
in general, an age of the irrational hypertrophic
totalization of partial [decontextualized, "rationalized"]
interests. Hieronymous Bosch
might have been able to make visual images of these
inversions of relation between part and whole (container and
contained, subject and object, etc.).
\brad mccormick
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